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That is our yard do not come inside. Take a look at what the portland trail blazers found in the visiting room. A baby snake. And just when president obama started talking about the nations future a man chimed in. And i guarantee you i love you back. You kind of screwed up my ending but thats okay. On cbs this morning. On mothers day apparently moms can eat for free at hooters. Because theres no better way to honor your mother than to take her to a sexist restaurant and not pay for anything. Welcome to cbs this morning. Good morning, norah. Good morning, charlie. We begin with the weather this morning. Those of you in the northwest are waking up to rain. Anyone flying east faces bigger problems. A powerful storm stretches a thousand miles from michigan to texas. Omar villafranca joins us. Reporter good morning to our viewers in the west. Yesterdays storm left its mark. Strong winds punched a hole into the side of this Dallas Church smashing windows and leaving a pile of bricks on the ground. Today the cleanup will continue. Its a hurricane out here reporter whipping winds and powerful storms pummelled dallas thursday afternoon, up to 4 inches of rain flooding cities. Rescuers pulled five boys from the creek after they became trapped from quickly rising waters. All five were taken to a hospital. These are kids were absolutely no training no equipment and being completely caught off guard. We are very fortunate as well as them that no one died of this incident. Reporter gusts of up to 70 miles an hour toppled trees and brought down power lines causing this transformer to explode. As many as 39,000 people were left without power. Some cars were crushed. Others were blown away. The rain flooded roads. Buildings were torn apart, leaving a widespread path of destruction. Let them lean and depend on you, father god. Reporter this church was empty when the front wall of the building collapsed. We rebuilt the building weve been here worshipping and were going to do it again. Reporter 45 miles away in joshua blistering winds destroyed this mobile home. It was overwhelming. Everything happened all at once. Reporter a mother was able to escape with her infant daughter. Im more concerned about her than anything else right now. Reporter the weather here in dallas is supposed to be much nicer tomorrow which is good news for the crews who have been working nonstop to restore power to roughly 4,400 people who are still without it. Omar thanks. This line of storms also brought at least two tornadoes to southern minnesota. Strong winds caused damage in several towns. No serious injuries are reported this morning. Meteorologist megan glaros is tracking the Severe Weather. Good morning and good morning to our viewers in the west. There is a chance of Severe Weather given today from texas all the way up through indiana and ohio in a swath of area that includes anyone from indianapolis to near live st. Louis, memphis, dallas and just outside of houston there is the possibility for isolated tornadoes, for large hail and once again for damaging winds. What i see on the futurecast model is heavy rain tapping in for the gulf coast. That will be a flood threat for that already hard hit area. In the west, reinain and mountain snow still a factor. 60 degrees for your high in Salt Lake City a comfortable 73 for los angeles. Megan, thank you. A group of american advisers is in nigeria this morning, planning strategy in the search for nearly 300 school girls kidnapped by an islamic terror group. Debora patta is in abuja, where they are pledging to find those girls. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Several experts will arrive in Nigeria Today to join colleagues already on the ground assisting the Nigerian Government in their rescue operation. Now, those missing school girls have been gone already for 25 days. Securing the release of the girls is not going to be easy. Activist shehu sani has broken two previous deals. He believes the girls could be used as a prisoner swap for lochiolochboko haram militants being held in jails. Right now we have high ranking members of boko haram who o could be used at crucial hours like this. The boko haram will not let these girls go until and unless you have a clear deal whether its by force to freedom or negotiation. Reporter it is now well over three weeks since the abduction. The girls had put in a hard day studying for their exam but their hopes for the future dissolved when members of the radical Islamic Group broke in set fire to the school and herded the girls into trucks. In these pictures shot by al jazeera english, a mother said she would do anything to see had your daughter again. Even if you take my life at that moment, i think im satisfied. Im not happy at all. I just feel like killing myself. The Nigerian Government will now start to thrash out the precise details of its rescue mission with the assistance of International Teams from britain, the United States france and china. Charlie . Debora thanks. Margaret brennan is at the state department where secretary john kerry says the United States will do everything they can o find those kidnapped students. Good morning. Reporter good morning. U. S. Intelligence believes many of these girls are being held in small groups and may have been taken into neighboring countries, specifically chad and cameroon. Thats why the u. S. Embassies in both those companies are interacting with nigeria. Our Interagency Team is hitting the ground in nigeria now and they are going to be working in concert with president jonathans government to do anything that we can to return these girls to their families and their communities. Reporter a Pentagon Team of were already stationed in nigeria have been assisting the government. Soon the fbi and Justice Department are expected to join them. This is a nigerianled operation, which means the u. S. Needs government permission to operate. A good part of these first few days is figuring out what the nigerians need and what the u. S. Will be allowed to do. Kerry is taking questions from Young African activists on twitter to discuss the search and the fight against boko haram. Thank you. Russian president Vladimir Putin is in crimea this morning. He arrived on a boat for a victory lap on the black sea peninsula. Putin is marking victory day, which celebrates the defeat of nazi, germany in world war ii. Tensions are escalating in ukraine. Clarissa ward is in donetsk as prorussian insurgents address a referendum. Reporter these people are marching toward the square and theyre flying russian and regional independence flags. It was the moment they all had been waiting for, their first visit from their new president on victory day. Celebrations began early this morning in moscow. Thousands of Russian Troops marched across red square as fighter jets streamed through the sky. Russias annual display of military mite was 14 minutes longer than usual this year. A sign of the wave of fierce patriotism that has gripped the country in the wake of russias annexation of crimea. President putin did not mention ukraine in his speech. But he spoke of the glory of a former empire. The iron will of the soviet union yet people he said saved europe from slavery. Here in ukraine, some people would like to see that empire restored. Prorussian separatists have decided to push ahead with a referendum sunday to determine whether this region becomes an independent republic. This Council Member explained the position to a group of foreign journalists. The real democracy is in russia now. Putin is with us, russia is with us and we are with them. These people are delighted that president putin has shown up in crimea today. A lot of them are hoping that next year president putin will be coming here. For cbs this morning, Clarissa Ward donetsk, ukraine. Back here in the United States investigators at the v. A. Are launching a nationwide audit of its Health Care Services for veterans. Secretary Eric Shinseki ordered the review thursday. Some veterans groups and lawmakers want him to resign. Whistleblowers claim dozens died because of delayed treatment. Wyatt anderson is in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This National Audit will ask every v. A. Clinic in america if veterans were put on a secret waiting list because there werent enough doctors to see them on time. The problem was first revealed at the v. A. Hospital in phoenix by a whistleblower we spoke to last evening. According to whistleblowers in phoenix, thousands of veterans seeking a v. A. Doctors appointment were put on a secret waiting list if they could not be seen within the v. A. s target goal of 14 days. The list made hospital officials look good because more patients were reported of being seen on time but it meant that patients on the secret waiting list might wait a year or more for care. Dr. Sam foote, who retired from the hospital last year was the first whistleblower to expose the system. The patients on the secret electronic list never made it into the door to see it. By the time they were called for their appointments they were dead. We dont know whether they were run over by a bus or they had some problem like congestive Heart Failure or coronary Heart Disease we could have fixed or helped them with. Eric shinseki called for a nationwide audit of every v. A. Clinic when it became clear at least four centers may have kept wait lists hidden from washington. Does this suggest a pattern that the wait lists seems to have surfaced in four places . Its a Large Health Care system 1,700 points of care and just about every within of them does scheduling. Were going to take a good hard look here. Reporter this scandal has led for rising demands for secretary shinseki to resign mostly from republicans but not from House Speaker john boehner, who yesterday called the v. A. Problem systemic suggesting its not all shinsekis fault. Thank you. Performers returned to the stage for the First Time Since an accident in rhode island left eight acrobats seriously hurt. We go to Hartford Connecticut where the audience heard from injured entertainers. Elaine, good morning. Reporter good morning. Acrobats performing an act called hair hang fell more than 25 feet when the equipment collapsed. Meanwhile the circus family here is dedicating the rest of the tour to the injured performers. The show in hartford started with a message to the fans from the eight acrobats injured. They fill your prayers and your thoughts. Reporter it was all smiles thursday night in the stands and on the stage. In a press conference before the show, the mood was somber. This has been an incredibly difficult time for our company and our circus family. Reporter investigators have indicated a snapped latch was involved. We are working with federal authorities and trying to find out exactly what happened to make sure an accident like this never happens again. Reporter the hair hang act wasnt performed in last nights show. Its been put on hold by circus officials until further notice. At this time we have no plans to replace the act. Reporter the eight women injured in the act are still recovering in rhode island. Three are in serious condition. Ringmaster Johnny Lee Iverson says they are in good spirits and eager to reunite with their circus family. They would get back up there yesterday if they could. Reporter iverson, who met his wife while working for the circus, met his wife while working for the circus. Ringling brothers tweeted out this picture, showing elephants Holding Signs that read we love our hair hang girls. Performances will continue through the weekend. Last night many eyes were on College Footballs marquee player, that would be Johnny Manziel manziel. But he spent a good amount of time on the sidelines. Reporter no question he was the sports conversation of the night last night. For better or worse, hes been here before. For most of the night, the guy who wasnt getting picked got more attention than the guys who did. Nobody knows where exactly Johnny Manziel, Johnny Football is going to wind up. Reporter nervously sipping water in the back room he became the uncomfortable focus of this nfl draft as player after player paraded on stage before him. The Houston Texans selected ja davian clowney, blake bort bortles. He wanted selected until pick 22. The browns second pick of the first round. He was gracious in acceptance. God had a plan for me and it would all work out. I really truly believe cleveland is where i was supposed to end up. Reporter maybe because manziels been down and up before. Johnny manziel. You have come down from the high yet or are you still riding that wave . Im still somewhere in the middle. Chaos. Reporter he came out of nowhere and then was told hed never be a good pro. I tried to tune out the media and everything that was going on. Reporter he got briefly benched but was still often spectacular. Now it seems a new chip on his shoulder and an example to follow. Remember Aaron Rodgers was drafted 24th overall by the Green Bay Packers nine years ago. That said the browns did also draft quarterbacks in the exact same slot they did this year number 22 in 2007 and 2012 brady quinn and brandon weedon. Neither worked out so well. We will see on manziel. Ahead on cbs this morning, well look at headlines from around the country. Plus a new fight for control of th late season storm sweeping through the bay area overnight leaving behind some rain but now things starting to clear out a bit outside. We are going to see more sunshine in the afternoon. Still a couple of lingering clouds over san jose early on today. And then the winds are going to start to pick up behind that cold front as High Pressure builds in so breezy along the coastline today. Highs only in the 50s and 60s. 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